The event is the first live stream of a complete opera from The Royal Opera and will mark 25 years of support from BP, which has enabled half a million people to enjoy world-class opera and ballet through free events around the UK. There is no catch up after the event, just the live stream and unfortunately for reasons beyond our control this will not be available in Germany.

As well as being streamed online, La traviata is also streamed in public squares and parks around the country. It will be followed by BP Big Screen relays of La bohèmeon 15 July, and Rigoletto on 17 September. There are no plans to live-stream these two future titles online at present.

BP first supported the Big Screen programme in 2000, when there was just one screen in Covent Garden, although the partnership began in 1988 with a wide variety of activities. Last Season was the most successful year for BP Big Screens, which saw more than 45,000 people watching from as far afield as Aberdeen, Belfast and Plymouth.

I am an Opera fan. When in London in the 60-90's I always would catch the Coventt Garden Royyal Opera. Love it. I think it's incredable what BP IS GOING FOR THE PUBLIC. I WISH WE HAD IIT HERE, WHERE WE can see the met in various theaters, but not free!,,, Thanks.

I am so excited about this streaming.
Is it really possible that I will be able to see this on my computer in my home. In the central mountains of Arizona. USA. I am the last one on the line, so remote. I can hardly believe it. Simon Keenlyside is my favorite.
Thank you from my heart. Gloria

I LOVE the ROH - the operas and the buildings. Paul Hamlyn Hall is a marvel. I saw La Fille Du Regiment in March, with one of Dame Kiri's last Opera performances. It was SUPER! I am looking forward here outside Boston, MA to seeing the live stream of La Traviata. It is just one of the most wonderful Operas. Great choice. Enjoy!

Traviata is my favourite and what an amazing cast! I'm very keen to watch the live broadcast on Tuesday as I couldn't get tickets, and I'm trying to check I advance if it will work. I'd like to watch it on my TV screen. I can get to the ROH website or directly to you tube. Will I be able to access the streaming from there? Do I need to have YouTube account? Apologies if these questions seem obvious but I haven't tried this technology before. Many thanks
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What is the link for the La Traviata live broadcast? On the Royal Opera site it gives http://www.bp.com/arts&culture as the link but I get an error message when I click the link. Is that because it's not yet active. I don't want to miss it.

I am sad ,that you did not broadcast one of the performances with Damrau and Hvorostovsky - they had a great success! Of course, Keenlyside also a good baritone, but Hvorostovsky - Germont is fantastic! How wonderful his voice sounded as accurately adjusted accents as an actor .... sorry, I think you made ​​the wrong choice for broadcast.A lot of people around the world would be grateful to you,if they could like to see the incredible,amazing duo of Diana Damrau and Dmitri Hvorostovsky!

The dates for the BP Big Screens (and therefore the associated live stream) are determined by availability of UK outdoor screens and also by the an attempt to ensure the best possible outcome with the weather - that is why we are broadcasting the final performance of the run.

I'm sure that lots of people around the world will enjoy the amazing Ailyn Pérez, Stephen Costello and Simon Keenlyside tonight!

Will the live stream be available in Germany? It says worlwide, but recently some ROH live content was not because of some strict copyright legislation only existing in this country? Thanks for confirming.

hoping you will follow with HD presentations in theatre. Noticed that one of your productions, Sicilian Vespers, was screened at a local theatre yesterday at 1.00 p.m., but no notice in our newspapers.

are you contemplating anyother screenings in Canada.

The Met HD productions are a wold success here with a dozen cinemas in Toronto along screening live productions from the Met.

Watching online in Dublin, Ireland and this is bringing back so many happy memories of evenings at the Royal Opera House! The cast is superb, thanks to everyone who made the live stream possible. Please make it be the first of many!

As well as being streamed online, La traviata is also streamed in public squares and parks around the country. It will be followed by BP Big Screen relays of La bohème on 15 July, and Rigoletto on 17 September. There are no plans to live stream these two future titles online at present.

It is a great pity that there are no plans to stream La bohème or Rigoletto! But I am enjoying La traviata tonight.

Absolutely stunning and glorious. Thank you BP for making this possible to stream. I mostly listened while I worked in Houston. It was a rare and beautiful event for me. Please, if more of these could be streamed, that would be wonderul. Thank you.

Thank you thank you for such a fantastic production Ailyn was such a good actress and an amazing beautiful voice looking forwards to the 24th in the cinema and july at home. Such a wonderful opportunity to see wonderful Opera Thank You.

What an amazing production and what a stunning Violetta! I sat at home on the island of Gozo and watched it on my laptop - what a treat.
Please, please can we have more live streaming of operas into our homes? It really is a brilliant way to introduce the joy of opera to a bigger audience. Thanks ROH and BP for a great night in!

Really enjoyed the performance. So lucky to get this online for free. I saw it recently at ROH with Diana Damrau and enjoyed the performance tonight just as much. I did think Natasha Kaplinski was a bad choice as a presenter though. I know you are trying to get new people to opera so you might want to choose someone who is known to non opera goers but I thought she was totally out of her depth. Going up to the singers at the end of the performance seemed totally inappropriate and really broke the spell. Antonio Pappano would have been a great choice as presenter - he knows his stuff but is a brilliant communicator.

Hi, all at ROH!
Terrific performance this evening, so a big thank you for that. I do come to ROH but it's not so easy from Derbyshire.
But please, please don't go the way of the Live Met broadcasts (on Radio 3) and shove a microphone in the face of the performers during the intervals, it's excruciating!
Let the performers maintain their focus and their important preparation, or 'switching-off' time.
These classic works can stand by themselves, and don't need to be dumbed-down by 'easy-on-the-eye' presenters asking daft questions.
How about helpful plot or music insights from one or more of your own education staff, to help those who may not have tried opera before?

A lovely traditional performance. I felt and enjoyed every minute of it. Please, please stream the other productions. They are fantastic for those people who cannot attend Covent Garden or the Large Screen events.

Best brunch entertainment EVER!!
Bit of a scare when nothing happening at !!:30am MDT (Calgary, Alberta) &..
so relieved when saw notification saying broadcast would begin in 24 mins.
Enjoyed the performance a great deal and send many thanks to ROH and BP. Hope you do it again soon!! Also, because of this streaming, I learned ROH now streaming to Cinema in Calgary.....been attending Met and ROH Ballet in movie theatre but very happy that will now be able to see some great Opera from the Garden!

Dear Ellen West, thank you for your response to my earlier comment. The actual performance was wonderful with only a couple of minor interruptions which I think are largely down to our router. In the interests of feeding back our actual experience the sound initially was rather unbalanced with the orchestra overpowering the singers but that settled down quite quickly. There were also odd light levels which may be down to the camera automatically adjusting, particularly when there was a closer focus on Violetta's white ballgown. But these too also disappeared after the first half of act one. What the experience has shown up is that I need to get better speakers for our computer! But even on our poor ones the singing was wonderful and the performance very moving. Thank you very much ROH and BP.

Judging by the comments this was a marvellous performance. What a pity therefore that there is no "catch-up" for people like me who were not available at the broadcast time to watch it. Your previous live transmission over a whole day could be seen for some time afterwards. We all hope that you will be doing more transmissions in the future so please include catch-up if only for a few days.

We would love to be able to provide a catch up, but for a full performance this would mean incurring additional costs in terms of rights. We will continue to explore options for live streaming and on demand viewing.